The Execution of the Earl of Essex

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

The Earl of Essex was beheaded on this day in 1601. How did the one-time favourite of Elizabeth I end up with such a fate?

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After a failed coup d'état against Elizabeth I, Robert Devereux was beheaded at the Tower of London on February 25th, 1601